John Ajvide Lindqvist

Birth : 1968-12-02, Blackeberg, Sweden

History

Swedish writer John Ajvide Lindqvist is best known for writing mostly horror novels and short stories. Lindqvist grew up in the Stockholm suburb of Blackeberg. His debut novel Let the Right One In, a romantic, social realistic vampire horror story published in 2004, enjoyed great success in Sweden and abroad. Handling the Undead was published in 2005 and involved the raising of zombies in the Stockholm area. His works are published by Ordfront and have been translated into many languages, including English, Bulgarian, German, Italian, Spanish, Norwegian, Danish, Polish, Czech, Dutch and Russian.

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Movies

Handling the Undead

Screenplay

On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town and the newly deceased awake from death.

Handling the Undead

Novel

On an abnormally hot summer day in Oslo, a strange electric field surrounds the city as a collective migraine spreads across town and the newly deceased awake from death.

Fulet

Writer

Two bullies decide to play an evil prank on an unpopular girl in their class but things quickly spiral out of their control.

Border

Screenplay

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

Border

Short Story

When a border guard with a sixth sense for identifying smugglers encounters the first person she cannot prove is guilty, she is forced to confront terrifying revelations about herself and humankind.

Let Me In

Novel

A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.

Let Me In

Screenplay

A bullied young boy befriends a young female vampire who lives in secrecy with her guardian. A remake of the movie “Let The Right One In” which was an adaptation of a book.

Let the Right One In

Writer

Set in 1982 in the suburb of Blackeberg, Stockholm, twelve-year-old Oskar is a lonely outsider, bullied at school by his classmates; at home, Oskar dreams of revenge against a trio of bullies. He befriends his twelve-year-old, next-door neighbor Eli, who only appears at night in the snow-covered playground outside their building.

Majken

Short Story

Dolly, a 67-year-old cleaning woman, gets mad at the Coop Supermarket. She thinks they're only pretending to be environmental because they still shrink-wrap their vegetables in plastic. She calls Coop and gets put through to Majken. Meeting Majken changes Dolly's life. You can't shut people down forever.

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John Ajvide Lindqvist